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There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight. ↗

— Gray Davis

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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. ↗

— Donald Davis

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My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs. ↗

— James Iha

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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#death #drunk #drunken #leave #making

I used to hear about guys who played saying how difficult it is getting up in the morning, and now I'm experiencing it; those same effects. ↗

— Terrell Davis

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